Chap. 0018 AN ACT FOR ERECTING A PLANTATION IN THE COUNTY OF WORCESTER, CALLED LAMBSTOWN, INTO A TOWNSHIP BY THE NAME OF HARDWICKE.
Whereas the plantation of Lambstown, so called, in the county of Worcester, is competently filled with inhabitants, who labour under divers inconveniences and difficulties for want of a power of enjoying and exercising town privile[d]ges among them, and have addressed this court setting forth the same and praying for rel[e]i[^]f therein,-
Be it enacted by IBs Excellency the Goveruour, Council and Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same,
[Sect. 1.] That the said plantation of Lambstown, inclusive of the additional grant, lying and being on both sides Wear Biver, as the same is hereafter bounded and described, be and hereby is constituted and erected into a separate and distinct township by the name of llard-wicke,-the bounds of said township being as follows ; vizt., beginning at the east bank of Ware Biver, at the north-west corner of a tract of land laid out to James Hovey ; from thence, extending southerly, as that line runs, to Brooktield bounds ; and from thence, easterly, asBrookf [e]i[e]ld bounds run, to the south-westerly corner of Braintry, six thousand acres ; and from thence, extending north-westerly, bounding north-easterly on said six thousand acres, till the line comes to Ware Biver, and so over the river, the same course, till it come[.s] to the corner of Brantry grant, and there strikes on Rutland line ; then running north, thirty-nine degrees west, seventeen hundred and sixty perch ; then south, fort}' degrees west, eighteen hundred perch ; then south, one degree thirty minutes west, one thousand and thirty perch ; then east, two degrees thirty minutes north, one thousand and five perch, to Ware Biver.
[Sect. 2.] And that the inhabitants thereof be and hereby are vested and endowed with equal powers, privile[d]ges and immunities which any of the inhabitants of any of the other towns in this province are or by law ought to be vested with.
Provided, nevertheless,
[Sect. 8.] That the inhabitants of said town do, within three years from the publication of this act, erect and finish a suitable and convenient meeting-house for the publick worship of God among them, they having alread}' an orthodox minister settled among them. [Passed January 10 ; published January 27, 1738-39.